Word: ultimatums
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...spent 3½ days in San Francisco briefing U.S. intelligence, settled in California, and tried to forget his painful experiences. He has never had a chance to forget: 17 years later, onetime Guerrilla Linehan, now 61, is still being deviled by Government bureaucrats. Last week came an ultimatum from Washington: Linehan could either defend himself in court or fork over the $554.89 that he owed the U.S. for his fare from Australia on a U.S.-owned troopship...
Faced with the Teamsters' ultimatum, the Inquirer's management quickly gave in, put strikers back in their old jobs. At week's end, the Daily News, also owned by Triangle, announced restoration of the Guild's old contract, agreed to negotiate a new one. Saved by the heavy hand of the Teamsters, the Guild was back in business in Philadelphia...
Abusive Building. When the mayor refused a request from the builders for water, the Baptists dug their own well ("God helped us find water"). Finally the mayor leveled an ultimatum: Take the "abusive building" down or the cops will...
...assassinated 16 years ago-the insurgents stepped up their pressure. De Gaulle had expected 15 luncheon guests: instead, 60 self-confident members of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety showed up to urge the general to make Soustelle his Minister for Algeria. Then, in something audaciously close to an ultimatum, Paratroop General Jacques Massu spelled out what the insurgent leaders expected of De Gaulle...
Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...